He devotes himself largely to his writing and research, over the years especially about managerial work, strategy formation, and forms of organizing. he is completing a book called Developing Managers, not MBAs, and am preparing a series of essays to be published under the title Managing Quietly, also a short political pamphlet called Getting Past Smith and Marx: Toward a Balanced Society.

He has worked for much of the past seven years or so, in collaboration with colleagues from Canada, England, France, India, and Japan, to develop new approaches to management education. The International Masters Program in Practicing Management has been running for five years now, and they are launching the Advanced Leadership Program, both rather novel ways to help managers learn from their own experience. He teaches in these programs and supervise doctoral students. He rarely do speeches, however, except to convey a particular message or to visit a place he wish to see.

In recent years, he has shifted a bit toward more general writing. He has done some newspaper articles, and he likes to write short stories, some of which are available on his web site. He hopes to publish a collection of them soon, entitled Reflection from the Window. And he has just completed a book called Why he Hate Flying, a spoof of all the foibles of flying, and of managing.

In all, he have written about 120 articles and about 10 books. Honors have included election as an Officer of the Order of Canada and l'Ordre national du Quebec, and selection as Distinguished Scholar for the year 2000 by the Academy of Management.

He may spend his public life dealing with organizations, but he spends his private life escaping from them. This he does on a bicycle (preferably on quiet roads in Europe), up mountains, or in the Laurentian wilderness of Canada atop cross-country skis and in a canoe. He like to do this with his wife Sasha and his daughters Susie (now 32) and Lisa (now 30).

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